QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
WHY ARE YOU PAINTING?
– WE DON‘T SEE THINGS AS THEY ARE, BUT AS WE FEEL THEM. I BELIEVE THAT EVERY HUMAN BEING HAS A STRONG EMOTIONAL COMPONENT AND POWER IN THEIR BEING. POWER IN THEIR BEING, IT‘S JUST THAT WE ARE SOCIALIZED AND CIVILIZED SO THAT WE DON‘T ALWAYS PERCEIVE IT IN OURSELVES, LET ALONE CONSCIOUSLY DRAW STRENGTH FROM IT.
With my painting, I would like to make a contribution so that we become more aware of the beautiful, the joyful and the powerful (perhaps also the comforting), so that we become involved in it – so that life always gives rise to an inner experience. That an inner experience emerges from life again and again. I am inspired by the beauty and joy and power of all life. And because all this arises within us, is our feelings, and is a journey to ourselves, I would like to invite you, with my paintings, to find – and see – the extraordinary, even in everyday shapes, in everyday life. I am happy if I can take one or the other viewer with me on this journey.
And precisely because I have been at home in the rational (and emotional) business world for decades, especially in the world of transformations, and have made my way there, I find it wonderful to keep breaking new ground myself. Art and painting have occupied me since my youth as something I would like to live out more. The time has come.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
HOW DO YOU PAINT?
– I PARTICULARLY ENJOY PAINTING IN THIS ROW DIRECTLY BY THE SEA, WITH A VIEW OF THE WATER AND THE SOUND OF THE WAVES – BUT IMAGINATION AND CREATIVITY DO NOT NEED A SPECIAL ENVIRONMENT, BUT RATHER THE URGENT DESIRE TO CREATE. MY COLORS ARE ACRYLIC, MY GROUND IS CANVAS, MY FORMATS ARE VERY DIVERSE. AS DIVERSE AS THE WORLD WE LIVE IN.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
WHY AEGEO?
– AEGEO IS THE GREEK WORD FOR AEGEAN. AND PERHAPS THIS BRIDGE-BUILDING IS ALSO SO DESTINED FOR ME PERSONALLY BECAUSE I CARRY TWO SUCH CONTRASTING CULTURES WITHIN ME: GERMAN AND GREEK. AND BECAUSE MY HEART BELONGS TO GREECE, THIS FIRST CYCLE IS DEDICATED TO AEGEO, TO THE MEDITERRANEAN, BUT ALSO TO THE GREEK MYTHOLOGY THAT I ASSOCIATE WITH MY WORKS.
In this respect, there is also this explicit connection in each painting, a conscious alteration of Greek mythology. But, of course, I am just as happy if the viewer finds in one of my works what is beautiful, joyful and powerful for him.